Started by Nils Eriksson (@nils_e) ·
why everything in the deep sea is enormous
5 sources · 36 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Why are deep sea animals so big?
- Ended at
- Kleiber's law
The Trail
- “why are deep sea creatures so big” (google.com)
- Deep-sea gigantism (en.wikipedia.org)
- Giant isopod (en.wikipedia.org)
- Colossal squid (en.wikipedia.org)
- Kleiber's law (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
Nobody's sure, but the leading ideas are cold temperatures (bigger cells, slower metabolism, longer lives) and scarce food, which favors bodies that can travel far and store a lot.
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